HINTS FOR THE AMATEUR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1940, Page 8

HINTS FOR THE AMATEUR

Fruit, Flowers and Vegetables WORK FOR THE WEEK VEGETABLE GARDEN. When the early sown peas are through the soil, draw up a little earth on each side of the rows. Make a small sowing pf radish seeds in a warm part of the garden. Dig in green manuring crops sown in early autumn. Select medium sized and well shaped tubers of artichokes for July planting. Set the seed potatoes on ;end in trays, to sprout; keep in a light position. Plant out autumn sown onions: if mildew is feared, keep the plants dusted with sulphur. FRUIT GARDEN. Pruning operations should be proceeded with now that the leaf has fallen. Destroy prunings by burning and do not leave them scattered under the trees. Trees badly affected by silver blight should be grubbed out; dress the soil with sulphate of iron before planting other trees. Do not plant trees in wet sticky ground; have some,dry soil to place round the roots. Look for the hold-over cankers of fire blight and brown rot; these are easily seen now and should be cut out. Paint over large wounds with Bordeaux powder stirred into linseed oil. FLOWER GARDEN. Sucker growths at the base of shrubs which are grafted on a common stock should be cut off at their base. Evergreen trees and shrubs should be looked over and any shoots which tend to upset the balance of the tree removed. The planting of all kinds of trees and shrubs should be proceeded with when the soil is in a suitable condition.